EBSCO Information Services Announces Clinical Decisions™ Brand
~ Suite of Solutions Designed to Improve Patient-Centered Outcomes, Increase Patient Engagement and Support Value-Based Care ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — Dec. 10, 2020 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced Clinical Decisions™ as the new brand for its growing suite of health care solutions focused on improving patient-centered outcomes. EBSCO is a leading provider of clinical decision support, shared decision making, and medical research solutions, helping to improve patient care by providing health care professionals with clinical evidence at the point of care. Bringing clinical resources and services together under the Clinical Decisions brand emphasizes the company’s focus on enhancing patient care through standardized and consistent application of evidence-based methodologies.

Informed treatment decisions and engaged patients lead to higher satisfaction and reduced costs. By providing trusted, evidence-based decision support, EBSCO Clinical Decisions aims to support a value-based care model with a holistic suite of products.

The Clinical Decisions suite from EBSCO includes the following solutions:

DynaMed®, EBSCO’s flagship clinical decision support tool which provides the most current, accurate, actionable answers to questions at the point of care
DynaMed® and Micromedex® with Watson™, a single solution through a partnership between EBSCO and IBM, which combines curated disease information with top evidence-based drug content
Dynamic Health™, a resource supporting evidence-based nursing and allied health best practices, essential competency development and the policy and procedure process for the highest quality decision support
DynaMed® Shared Decisions™, a robust collection of shared decision-making tools that enable patients and providers to have meaningful and informed discussions, leading to higher patient satisfaction and improved outcomes
Isabel, a diagnosis decision support tool that aims to broaden a differential diagnosis and reduce clinical uncertainty
The Clinical Decisions suite of products all work with an underlying set of operating services making implementation, maintenance and interoperability with the EHR and analytics reporting consistent for a full view of the care team’s decision points to help reduce variation in care.

EBSCO’s Executive Vice President for Clinical Decisions, Betsy Jones, says that by offering an array of diverse clinical decision tools, the company is focused on making a deeper impact on patient care. “EBSCO is committed to supporting evidence-based health care and enhancing the relationships between patients and their health care providers. With Clinical Decisions, we look to leverage the deep expertise of our team to provide the answers that health care providers need — when, where and how they need it. On the cusp of unveiling additional resources and services, and knowing the work we have put into our consistent approach to evidence across our editorial and product suite, our evolution to Clinical Decisions is hitting maturity and comes together under a united brand.”

For more information on EBSCO’s Clinical Decisions, visit www.clinicaldecisions.com.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the preeminent provider of online research content and search technologies serving academic, school and public libraries; healthcare and medical institutions; corporations; and government agencies around the world. EBSCO’s Clinical Decisions suite of products are designed to improve patient care by providing healthcare professionals with the most current, evidence-based answers to clinical questions as they arise at the point of care. EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc., a family owned company since 1944. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com

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For more information, please contact:
Jessica Holmes
Communications Director
978-356-6500 x3485
jmholmes@ebsco.com

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that CLiC (Colorado Library Consortium) has added Southern Teller Public Library District, Colorado to their consortium. They will be using Koha for their ILS and Aspen Discovery for their catalog.

ByWater completed the transition of the libraries' 38,000 plus holdings from Athena and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The Southern Teller Public Library District catalog can be viewed at

https://catalog.aspencat.info/

Southern Teller Public Library District is made up of
Franklin Ferguson Memorial Library in Cripple Creek, Co and Victor Public Library in Victor, Co. The mission of the library is to support lifelong learning by anticipating and responding to educational and community needs for information, to encourage a desire to read, and enrich the quality of life in our community.

Read more at: https://steller.colibraries.org/about/

About CLiC (Colorado Library Consortium)
CLiC is an infrastructure for libraries throughout Colorado. Vision: Helping libraries achieve greatness in their communities. Mission: Connecting. Energizing. Inspiring. Services for libraries throughout Colorado.

Core Values:
-Deliver friendly service
-Seek opportunities for collaboration
-Support growth and discovery
-Celebrate successes
-Save money for libraries
-Blend work & play to create fun

Read more at https://www.clicweb.org/about-clic/who-we-are/

About ByWater Solutions
ByWater Solutions is a full service, high-quality Open Source support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their systems than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in the first-rate implementation and support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, Folio LSP, Coral ERM, and Libki PC Management.

Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions not only lowers the cost of implementation and maintenance of OSS but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit https://bywatersolutions.com.

About Koha
Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.

Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management, and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies, HTML5, CSS and Javascript, making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit http://koha-community.org.

About Aspen Discovery
Aspen is a full-featured Discovery System that integrates with e-content and other 3rd party providers, giving your patrons comprehensive access to all of your materials in one place. Aspen combines your library catalog with e-content, digital archives, and enrichment from all major third-party providers improves relevancy and ease of use, provides native reading recommendations, displays all formats of titles within one result (FRBR) and much more. Aspen was created to give users an improved experience over other Discovery systems with less of an impact on library budgets. For more information about Aspen please visit: https://bywatersolutions.com/projects/aspen-discovery

For More Information
Jessica Zairo
Director of Library Sales & Outreach
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944

ByWater completed the transition of the library's 88,000 plus holdings from Polaris and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The library's customized Aspen Discovery interface can be viewed at: https://discovery.benbrooklibrary.org/

Aspen Team Member, Addie Van Salisbury, commented on the implementation,"Benbrook Public Library is doing great things with Aspen Discovery to ensure their patrons are informed of their exciting resources and are easily accessible through Aspen. They are spotlighting things like their Library of Things right on their landing page!”

About Benbrook Public Library

The Benbrook Public Library provides free services to all residents living within the Benbrook city boundaries, as well as non-residents. In addition to offering access to a vast array of reading, listening, and viewing material, they also deliver a wealth of helpful and enriching services to our patrons. Whether you’d like to surf the Web, do some research with our databases, receive computer instruction, participate in a book club, enjoy storytime, or just lounge in our reading area with a good book, they’ve got something for you.

Read more at https://benbrooklibrary.org/about-us-3521.

About ByWater Solutions

ByWater Solutions is a full service, high-quality Open Source support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their systems than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in the first-rate implementation and support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, Folio LSP, Coral ERM, and Libki PC Management.

Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions not only lowers the cost of implementation and maintenance of OSS but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit https://bywatersolutions.com.

About Aspen Discovery

Aspen is a full-featured Discovery System that integrates with e-content and other 3rd party providers, giving your patrons comprehensive access to all of your materials in one place. Aspen combines your library catalog with e-content, digital archives, and enrichment from all major third-party providers, improves relevancy and ease of use, provides native reading recommendations, displays all formats of titles within one result (FRBR) and much more. Aspen was created to give users an improved experience over other Discovery systems with less of an impact on library budgets. For more information about Aspen please visit: https://bywatersolutions.com/projects/aspen-discovery.

About Koha

Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.

Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management, and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies, HTML5, CSS, and Javascript, making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit http://koha-community.org.

Libraries Turn to NoveList®’s LibraryAware™ to Communicate with Patrons During the COVID-19 Pandemic
~ Libraries Globally Add LibraryAware’s Marketing Resources ~
IPSWICH, Mass. — December 7, 2020 — LibraryAware™, from NoveList®, a division of EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), is becoming a must-have marketing tool given the unique needs of libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic. These unique needs have led to unprecedented interest in LibraryAware as library staff are leveraging its 10,000+ ready-to-use templates, allowing staff to communicate with patrons and increase awareness of virtual programming, reopening, pick up plans, changes in hours, and more.

Library closings, reduced hours and limited in-person patron allowances are changing the way library staff operate and promote their resources to patrons. The pandemic has made it even more important for libraries to reach diverse members of their community with different strategies to emphasize ways the library can help. Because the library community is everywhere (online, getting curbside pick-up, visiting the library in person), libraries need their marketing to be everywhere — including emails, social media, newsletters, signage and more.

LibraryAware offers materials and ready-to-go templates available for channels important to libraries like social media, email, print, digital signage, NoveList Select and checkout stations. The LibraryAware team at NoveList is constantly creating new campaigns, initiatives and resources so that they can help libraries address the issues they are confronting during the pandemic. Some of these initiatives include reopening campaigns, reading campaigns, story time promotion, and digital resource awareness. Sarah Hart Coatsworth, Chatham-Kent Public Library’s Manager of Marketing Outreach and Programs says “LibraryAware’s templates made a tricky situation a little more manageable — there were several templates prepared for new things libraries were doing during the pandemic like curbside service (with corresponding graphics) and practical pieces like signage including COVID-19 precautions.”

LibraryAware combines its promotion and marketing tools with NoveList’s book expertise by creating templates, emails, and book widgets that enable virtual browsing. These resources make it easier to tell patrons about the resources and services available at their local library while relieving the pressure of creating marketing materials from library staff who are stretched thin during the pandemic.

Melissa Andrews, Collection Development Manager at Boston Public Library, says that when the Boston Public Library needed a new way to provide readers’ advisory virtually, they turned to the NextReads newsletters that are part of LibraryAware. She says they make it easy for libraries to send book recommendations on more than 20 topics and genres directly to patrons’ inboxes. “I have always wanted to offer booklist newsletters but COVID accelerated those plans. Most of our readers’ advisory was based around browsing in person, so we needed new ways to deliver those services, and the NextReads newsletters was an easy way to do that.”

Danielle Borasky, Vice President of NoveList, says LibraryAware was designed to work alongside libraries and help them with that essential business of raising awareness and that mission is even more important during COVID-19. “The pandemic has increased the importance of digital marketing for libraries and highlighted how essential increasing community awareness and engagement is to ensure the future success of libraries. It’s been amazing to see how creative libraries have been as they use LibraryAware to showcase their digital resources, promote their collections and engage their readers. Being a part of keeping libraries at the center of their community is something I’m proud we’re able to do.”

In 2006, NoveList launched NextReads, a subscription-based email readers' advisory service for libraries and their patrons. To offer librarians more tools and resources for marketing library services, NoveList created LibraryAware, which incorporated the NextReads newsletters. Today, LibraryAware is used by thousands of libraries to keep patrons informed and engaged with ready-to-use templates for email, social media, newsletters, and more.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the preeminent provider of online research content and search technologies serving academic, school and public libraries; healthcare and medical institutions; corporations; and government agencies around the world. From research, acquisition management, subscription services and discovery to clinical decision support and patient care, learning, and research and development, EBSCO provides institutions with access to content and resources to serve the information and workflow needs of their users and organizations. EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc., a family owned company since 1944. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com.

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For more information, please contact:
Celia Zampitella
Senior Communications Coordinator
czampitella@ebsco.com

The British Museum has partnered with archiving experts Exact Editions to offer cutting-edge digital subscriptions to their membership magazine to institutions around the world. The expansive archive, which currently stretches back to 2006 and will be completed in early 2021, allows museum students and professionals alike to access a treasure trove of in-depth editorial content at the touch of a button across web, iOS and Android devices.

Founded in 1753, the British Museum is the oldest and greatest publicly funded museum in the world, exhibiting two million years of human history and culture. Published three times a year, the pages of membership title British Museum Magazine include striking visuals alongside museum and exhibition insights, research news and historical features.

Subscribing institutions will benefit from both seamless IP access on site and intuitive remote access options that facilitate access from any location. The archive also boasts an advanced search function that cements its status as a vital research tool.

British Museum Magazine is available in the Exact Editions institutional shop here:

https://institutions.exacteditions.com/british-museum-magazine

Membership Manager Claire Byfield commented: “The collection of archived issues has really been brought to life in this new digital format; the comprehensive search tool in particular will prove incredibly useful for those who work in or have a passion for the museum industry.”

Managing Director of Exact Editions, Daryl Rayner, remarked: “We’re delighted to be working with the British Museum on this new venture. Entering the digital institutional market will not only introduce the magazine as a teaching tool internationally, but also spread the Museum’s news and research across the globe.”

About British Museum:

Founded in 1753, the British Museum was the world’s first national public museum. Its collections focus on human history and culture and include over seven million objects. Enlightenment ideals and values – critical scrutiny of all assumptions, open debate, scientific research, progress and tolerance – have marked the Museum since its foundation.

The Museum is driven by an insatiable curiosity for the world, a deep belief in objects as reliable witnesses and documents of human history, sound research, as well as the desire to expand and share knowledge.

About Exact Editions:

Exact Editions is a digital publishing company based in London. It is a team of producers, developers and designers that turns periodicals with archives into dynamic, user-friendly digital editions. Exact Editions specialises in digitising content, selling subscriptions and providing streaming solutions across web, iOS and Android platforms. Exact Editions are also the innovators of ‘Reading Rooms’ technology, so publishers can provide streaming, time-limited, access to digital editions.